_ 416 _ henceforward. If it appears that there is anything omitted, Your Highness will let me know. Tomás de Cornoça is a most outstanding organizer of this arrangement to provide information, and he shows great care and diligence in it. He receives from Your Highness sixty cruzados a year. I believe that his uncle, who was appointed Portuguese consul in Venice by the late king received a hundred and twenty. Your Highness gave the sixty with the present office at my request, with the intention of increasing it in time. I assure Your Highness that it is a very small salary to pay port charges and the requirements of information gathering. He begs me with great earnestness to intercede for him with Your Highness to increase it to what his uncle received. I think he has justice and merit on his side and deserves this favour from Your Highness, and that his salary should now be increased to a hundred cruzados a year. It is true that, as will be seen, I failed to fulfill the order of glass you said in your letter should be sent to Dona Caterina, but it is much truer that he deserves favour. It is also very necessary for what he is trying to do with information from all parts, and because these are the kind
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